Two straphangers were shoved to the tracks in lower Manhattan and a senior citizen was beaten aboard a Brooklyn train in two more unprovoked subway attacks on Monday, police said.
In the Manhattan incident, one of the straphangers, a 71-year-old man, suffered a broken elbow, and the other, a 30-year-old man, sustained a bruised elbow and hip.
Their alleged attacker, Terrell Coley, 54, was arrested at the scene — at the South Ferry/Whitehall St. station for the R and W trains — and was charged with felony assault and reckless endangerment.
Meanwhile, in the Brooklyn assault, the senior, a 73-year-old man, was cut and bruised by the attacker’s repeated punches, which drew blood. The attacker fled the scene of the the Avenue X station on the F line in Gravesend.
Subway crime continues to drop citywide, down 5% overall so far this year. But felony assaults in the system are up 20%, having risen to 235 compared to 195 during the same time last year.
Police said Coley, who has more than two dozen prior arrests, confronted the victims around 10:35 p.m., knocking the younger of the two to the tracks by punching him in the face, and the older victim by shoving him.
The two were able to climb back onto the platform on their own, then pointed out their attacker to responding officers, police said.
The younger victim was taken to NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital. The other man was taken to Bellevue Hospital.
The Brooklyn assault happened earlier in the day, at 7:45 a.m. The victim was seated on a moving southbound train, when a man in his 20s approached him and repeatedly punched him in the face and head. The victim was treated for his injuries at South Brooklyn Hospital.
The attacker is being sought.
